And now for some good news

Mary Tyler Moore “broke” that when she began to sport Capri pants on the Dick Van Dyke Show… quite controversial back then.

Then there are men’s PJ pants that have sealed flies. They have the “promising” flap, then nadda.

Back to good news:

Susan Crawford was projected to win an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, keeping the high court’s 4-3 liberal majority intact and delivering a blow to Elon Musk and President Trump, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Liberal candidate wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk

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The Facebook app now has an option to just show posts in your feed from your actual friends. It makes it feel like Facebook from 10, 15 years ago.

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What would really maybe tempt me to go back to Facebook would be:

  • Zuck resigns.
  • Allow users to view posts only from friends and in strict chronological order, no posts skipped, no recommended posts, no algorithmic anything.
  • Allow fully customizable keyword filter lists.
  • Meta commits to inclusivity and diversity, and cracks down on hate, derogatory speech, violent content, etc.
  • Meta also ramps up fact checking and cracks down on the spread of dangerous disinformation.
  • Meta commits to user privacy.
  • Meta commits to not manipulating/blocking search terms (e.g. “privacy” and “LGBTQ”)
  • Meta commits to better treatment of its employees and contractors.
  • Meta completely drops its “real name” policy
  • Meta refuses to run political ads, donate to political campaigns, or to censor content for any political regime

This is not going to happen.

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???

When I hit the circled icon, I get lists of people. Not posts.

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For me, it only works with the mobile app, not the website.

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Well, I don’t know what sorcery this is. On my phone, there is no such icon. (Although there is one for dating?) The tablet’s icon does not do that.

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Hmm. Limited testing of new feature?

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Perhaps.

Come to think of it, the latest OS update didn’t go through because memory was too full. It may only release the new feature when a new OS is available.

Although the phone did update.

ETA: The App Store boasts about the new friends tab, so I guess everybody potentially has it. I’m guessing my OS theory is correct, but can’t be arsed to clear out memory right now.

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I’m focusing on the “Hooters files for bankruptcy” part; I don’t care about what it means in Toronto.

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I didn’t realize they were still around…

I remember seeing their airline on a gate sign at BWI, in the time since I remember seeing one of their restaurants.

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Great to hear!

Sad though that one Asshole Barometer (“I love going to Hooters!” “Byeee!!”) will be missing from my life.

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But don’t you know? They only go for the wings. No other place makes chicken wings, or as good as Hooters! /s

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Did the company go bust?

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I think that the owners must have been a bunch of boobs.

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I like boobies and tits too.

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I like telling people “The haters told me to grow a pair, so I am, just not the pair they expected”. :smiley:

In any case, that’s a wonder pair of boobies there, and a nice tit. /silly

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Nearly 1,400 suspected consumers of CSAM have been identified among 1.8 million global KidFlix users, and 79 have been arrested so far. According to Europol, 39 child victims were protected as a result of the sting, and more than 3,000 devices were seized.

Those numbers cause major rage and nausea, but the hope that they will be taken out of circulation gives me some hope. Holy shit, though, 1.8 million users? WTAF!?!?! Humans are a failed experiment at this point, man. :sob:

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The whole point of hooters was men drooling over scantily clad waitresses. People had the gall to complain that hooters, of all places, wasn’t family-friendly enough.

What effing part of “men drooling over scantily clad waitresses” made anyone “think” it would/could/should be family-friendly at all? It’s almost as ridiculous as deciding to complain that titty bars, b/c they have great food,* should be family-friendly.

hooters is stupid. People who “think” they should be able to take their kids there are even more stupid.

*One of my oldest friends was, um, exceptionally well-endowed. Whenever she couldn’t find a straight job quickly enough, she’d go to titty bars, where they’d fall all over themselves asking when she could start work. She told me the food in such joints, while pretty basic men’s pub fare, was always really good.

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